Literacy
This topic has for many years already generated complex questions and investigations from cultural pundits on the one hand and educational theorists and pedagogues on the other.
Starting in the late '90s there began to appear a veritable avalanche of books with titles like Digital Literacy and Literacy in the New Media Age, all attempting to account for the expanding literate universe from particular, discipline-specifc angles.
Enormous energy from all quarters continues to be poured into scholarly conferences, academic institutes and publications that tackle a wide array of questions including multimodal textuality and visual rhetoric.
One trend that seems generally evident is that the proliferation of a graphical user interface through the web and desktop computers combines with the pervasiveness of video media to prompt a growing interest in visual semiotics.
Particularly within an American political climate where literacy more broadly instigates heated and polarized debate, the complicating factors of technology can only serve to turn up the flame.
Starting in the late '90s there began to appear a veritable avalanche of books with titles like Digital Literacy and Literacy in the New Media Age, all attempting to account for the expanding literate universe from particular, discipline-specifc angles.
Enormous energy from all quarters continues to be poured into scholarly conferences, academic institutes and publications that tackle a wide array of questions including multimodal textuality and visual rhetoric.
One trend that seems generally evident is that the proliferation of a graphical user interface through the web and desktop computers combines with the pervasiveness of video media to prompt a growing interest in visual semiotics.
Particularly within an American political climate where literacy more broadly instigates heated and polarized debate, the complicating factors of technology can only serve to turn up the flame.
posted by sat at 10:26 AM
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